Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Thursday sought to clarify her failure to mention slavery when prompted about the Civil War at a town hall in New Hampshire.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Thursday sought to clarify her failure to mention slavery when prompted about the Civil War at a town hall in New Hampshire.
The remarks by Ms. Haley, who trails front-runner Donald Trump by double digits but has seen a rise in the polls in early primary states, came three weeks before New Hampshire primary voters head to the ballot box Jan. 23.
“Of course, the Civil War was about slavery. We know that. That’s the easy part of it,” she said on the radio program “The Pulse of NH.” “What I was saying was what does it mean to us today? What it means to us today is about freedom.
